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Vietnam’s exports to the United States reached 10.21 billion U.S. dollars in the first 11 months of last year, down 5.81 percent year-on-year, said the information center of the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade on Friday.
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Last November, Vietnam pocketed 929.1 million U.S. dollars from exporting goods to the United States, a decrease of 14.62 percent from the previous month.

Vietnam’s export turnover to the U.S. market in the first 11 months of 2009 came mostly from the exports of garment and textile, wood and wood products, footwear, seafood, and crude oil, said the center.

Garment and textile topped the Vietnam’s export items to the United States during the same period with the export turnover standing at 4.51 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 44.13 percent of the total export turnover to this market.

Export turnover of wood and wood products, the second largest export item to the United States, reached 979.46 million U.S. dollars, a climb of 1.91 percent over the same period of a year earlier, said the center.

From January to November last year, the country witnessed a year-on-year drop in most of export items to the U.S. market including garment and textile, footwear, seafood, crude oil, cashew nuts, and coffee.
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However, the U.S. importers spent more money during the this period on purchasing wood and wood products, electronic products, precious stones and metals, and tea from the Vietnamese market than the same period of 2008.

Vietnam is expected to see an increase in export this year to the United States thanks to the U.S. economic recovery after the crisis, said the center.

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 The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) discovered six weapons caches in an operation in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an ISAF press release said Friday.
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The weapons caches, discovered on Thursday, contained a large amount of weapons and IED making materials, including 340 pounds of home-made explosives, 17 hand grenades, an RPG launcher, and numerous small arms and ammunition, the press release added.

Most of the materials were destroyed on site, it further said.

In another operation in of southern Kandahar province, Afghan National Police and ISAF forces seized 1,000 pounds of hashishm when searching a building in the province’s Arghandab district, ISAF press release said. The drugs were destroyed on site.
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The southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces, the stronghold of Taliban militants, have been the scene of skirmishes and Taliban-led insurgency over the past several years.

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Kenyan police fired teargas canisters on Friday to break up demonstrations called by Muslims to protest the arrest of controversial Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.
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The police shot in the air to disperse the demonstration called by the Muslim Human Rights Forum which had started peacefully in the Kenyan capital Nairobi after the Friday prayers.

The Muslims argued that they notified the government of their intention to stage demonstration in major towns on Friday to press for the release of the Jamaican, who was last Monday forced back into the country after Nigeria declined to allow him to use its territory en route to Gambia, where he had asked to be taken.

They managed to thwart attempts by the stone-throwing demonstrators who were waving the flag of Somali militia groups to march into the Nairobi streets.

Youths waved placards castigating the government’s move to arrest the cleric, whose history of radical statements and connections with convicted terrorists made him a threat to Kenya’s security.

However, the peaceful demonstration soon turned ugly after a confrontation between the youths and police ensued. The police officers were forced to storm the Mosque to flush out the youths, who had sought refuge inside.

Police fired teargas canisters to disperse the youth, who in turn pelted the officers with stones. A huge pall of smoke engulfed Nairobi streets, especially near the mosque, as the two groups engaged in a cat-and-mouse chase.

Several youths were injured in the melee and were rushed to hospital by ambulance. A contingent of security officers was called in to offer reinforcement as the hide and seek battle intensified.

The Jamaican preacher was deported from Nairobi on Thursday following orders by Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang. Al-Faisal, born Trevor William Forrest, was convicted in Britain on terrorism-related charges in 2003 and deported on release in 2007.
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On arrival in Jamaica, the Islamic Council of Jamaica banned him from preaching in its mosques. The Kenyan authorities held Al-Faisal at the country’s main airport for the better part of last week as they plotted his next destination.

Kenya had flown him to Lagos, Nigeria. From there, he was scheduled to fly to Gambia and then to Jamaica. But airlines in Nigeria refused to fly him to Gambia.

Kenyan authorities reportedly drove him to the border of Tanzania last Tuesday because he had entered Kenya from there, but Tanzania refused him entry.

On Thursday, Gambia offered to help get him to Jamaica, but now it is unclear how he can travel to Gambia. Muslim leaders and human rights activists said Sunday that they had spotted Faisal at a Nairobi prison.

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 ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan expressed condolence on Friday over the devastating earthquake in Haiti that may have left estimated 50,000 people dead and caused massive destruction.
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“I am saddened to learn about the extensive loss and damage that the earthquake has caused in Port-au-Prince. My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Haiti in their time of grief,” Surin said in a statement.

The Foreign Ministers of ten ASEAN member states, who are meeting in Viet Nam, also expressed their deep sympathies to the victims of the earthquake, adding that each of their respective governments would take appropriate action to send assistance to Haiti. cheap uggs

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Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said on Thursday that the idea of settling the name dispute with Greece in a fashion of a gradual way will get no where. sandal shoes

    Pavle Trajanov, lead of the Democratic Union inside the ruling coalition government led by Gruevksi has proposed that Macedonia and Greece adopt a three-step solution to the name dispute between the two neighbors.

    ”Trajanov’s proposal is probably well-intended and I am welcoming it, but considering the talks I have had thus far with Greece, it is completely unacceptable and (the country’s officials)refuse to discuss it,” Gruevski said.

    Trajanov proposed that the two countries first settle on a compromise name for international use for the tiny western Balkan country.

    He assumes that this would prompt Athens, a member of the EU and NATO to lift its blockades on Macedonia’s aspiration to join the EU and NATO.

    The second phase envisages the forming of bilateral committees that would gradually solve each open issue, including the span of use of the agreed name, he said.

    And the UN Security Council would step in at the end by voting a deal that would be complemented with all previous bilateral agreements, Trajanov proposed. short ugg boots

    Athens and Skopje are locked in a 19-year-long dispute over the use of the name of Macedonia. Athens claims that Macedonia’s name implies territorial claims against Greece’s own northern province, also called Macedonia.

In December last year, the EU postponed a decision on opening accession talks with Macedonia due to the name dispute. Greece also vetoed Macedonia’s NATO aspirations over the row in 2008.

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A roadside bomb went off Thursday in Jordan’s Naour area when civilian cars including two Israeli diplomats’ cars were passing by, the stat-run Petra news agency quoted a senior Jordanian official as saying on Thursday.  timberland rolltop

    There were no casualties in the bombing and an investigation into the incident was underway, Jordan’s Minister of State for Media Affairs and Communications Nabil Sharif said.

    The incident occurred around 5:00 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on the Naour road which leads to the Jordan Valley area, where the King Hussein Bridge located along the Jordanian-Israeli borders.

    The official did not mention if Israeli ambassador in Amman was in the convoy, but local media reports indicated that former Israeli ambassador to Jordan Jacob Rosen was in the convoy, which was heading to Israel. ugg slippers

    Jordan was the second Arab state after Egypt to sign a peace treaty with Israel. The two countries signed the Wadi Araba Peace Treaty in 1994.

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While the benefits of record low interest rates and huge stimulus packages will drive solid growth in the Canadian and global economies during the first half of 2010, the economy risks returning to sluggish growth in the second half of the year and into 2011, according to a bank report released on Thursday. classic short uggs

    The report by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) notes that the actions of central bankers and finance ministers, combined with a rapid recovery in the financial markets, points to a stronger economic performance in Canada and the U.S. in the first half of 2010. But growth could be restrained in the second half of the year as governments turn off the stimulus taps and U.S. consumers continue to deleverage.

    CIBC Chief Economist Avery Shenfeld said in the bank’s latest “Economic Forecast Report” that Canadian manufacturing and resources will benefit from the upswing in global growth and inventory rebuilding in the first half of 2010 but will subsequently feel the combined pinch of decelerating foreign demand and an overvalued Canadian dollar. .

    The report notes that China might also slow its Treasuries buying if it starts allowing a modest yuan appreciation later this year. With huge deficits also needing funding in Europe, global bond yields will come under pressure. While outperforming Treasuries for 2010 as a whole, this environment should see 10-year yields reach nearly four percent in Canada in a flattening sell-off ahead of the first rate hikes, before easing off towards year end. sandal shoes

    ”The stock market could get a decent year’s return in the first six months, when year-on-year earnings comparisons will be against the depths of the recession, macro growth rates will be fairly healthy, and resource prices could still be climbing,” he adds.

    ”While comparable fixed income yields won’t be as low as they are today, the gap between Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) dividend yields and those on bonds is very narrow, and expectations for dividend growth in 2010 and beyond should see yield-hungry investors supporting another leg higher for the TSX.”

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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Thursday urged the Darfur rebels to stop fighting and resort to dialogue to achieve comprehensive peace in the region. classic short uggs

    ”We have promised to achieve peace, and we call on our brothers who are carrying arms to put down their weapons and make efforts to achieve peace, development and stability,” al-Bashir said when addressing a gathering at the el-Fasher stadium in the capital of North Darfur state.

    The Sudanese president said it was important for all the Darfurians to participate in the forthcoming elections scheduled for April, saying “we want to organize free, credible and comprehensive elections, and it is important that all the people of Darfur participate in general elections.”

    ”We want the Darfurians to choose their representatives to the legislative councils and the governor for their region and to elect the president of the republic upon their free will,” he added.

    ”We want the coming elections to be a Sudanese model for the world in peaceful transition of power,” he said. timberland

    The Sudanese president arrived in el-Fasher on Thursday to attend conclusion of the 21st national school tournament, hosted by North Darfur state.

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At the end of January, NATO-led peacekeeping forces in Kosovo (KFOR) will have 10,000 soldiers and their competence and structure will be adjusted in keeping with the existing demands for the maintenance of a secure environment, the KFOR base in Pristina stated on Wednesday. cardy uggs

    All multinational tactical forces in Kosovo will be configured into multinational battle groups by the end of January, the statement says.

    It was also announced that from January 15 to February 24, KFOR main base will perform exercises across Kosovo in order to assess the new structures, and the exercises will include training in thefield and coordination of operation.

    The purpose of exercises is to enable the KFOR forces to maintain a high level of readiness and be prepared for rapid deployment in response to any scenario, the statement said.

    Supreme Allied Commander Europe Admiral James G. Stavridis announced the reduction plan in Pristina on December 9, 2009. cheap uggs

    KFOR was deployed to Kosovo in June 1999, after NATO bombed Serbia to oust Belgrade’s security forces from the territory. The force initially had around 50,000 troops from 39 nations but was downsized as the threat of renewed violence faded. About 15,000 troops from 32 countries, mainly from the Alliance, are currently serving in Kosovo.

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